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If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them
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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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I read somewhere that it is normal of humans to overestimate progress in the short term, and underestimate it in the long term.
That gives me hope, assuming we have a long enough term for all this progress to manifest.
I think we have underestimated how much progress has been made on killing the planet.